Clothes-drier



@.GRANT, r. GLOTHBSDR 10,576,815

Patented Peb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GRANT, JR., OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,815, dated February9, 1897.

Application iiled October 30, 1896. Serial No. 610,530. (No model.)

fo all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES GRANT, Jr. of Revere, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to clothes-driers, and has for its object toproduce a simple, light, and easily-portable folding rack for dryingarticles of clothing or the like, as well as one which possesses morestability when in use than is ordinarily found in clothes-driers of itsclass.

My clothes-drier iS constructed with long cylindrical wooden uprightsand horizontal wooden cross-bars connecting these uprights at intervalsalong their length. The invention consists in the novel and simplemethod of iixing the cross-bars in place upon said uprights.

Of the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichcorresponding parts are indicated by similar letters of reference,Figure l is a perspective View of a clothes-drier constructed accordingto my invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one of the jointsor hinges thereof.

Referring to the drawings, a d represent the upright wooden rods, whichare preferably circular iu cross-section.

b b and b b represent the cross-bars upon which the clothes or otherarticles to be dried are intended to be hung, said cross-bars havingannular apertures formed at their ends to embrace the upright rods. Thecross-bars b b occupy alternate sections of the clothesdrier and arenailed, screwed, doweled, or otherwise rigidly secured at convenientintervals to the Wooden uprights a a. cross-bars b' b occupy theintermediate sections of the clothes drier and are loosely mounted uponsaid uprights ct a, thus adapting the device to be folded compactly.

The ends of the cross-bars of adjacent sections overlap each other, andthe looselymounted bars b b are prevented from sliding up or down on theupright rods by means of the rigidly-secured bars b, and wooden-collarsc c, likewise rigidly secured to the upright rods ce a, the end of eachbar b having below The it the fixed end of a bar b and above it a fixedcollar c, or vice versa, excepting on the first and last uprights, wherethe collars c c are omitted and the ends of all the bars are secured tothe uprights.

In Fig. 2 d d represent nails driven into the collar c and into the barb, securing said collar and bar to the upright a.

b2 b2 represent locking bars or yokes, each of which is adapted to slipover the upper ends of two uprights a. d and lock the included sectionsof the clothes-drier in the form of a V, thus'giving stability to thedrier and an ample base to stand upon.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have provided a peculiarlysimple folding rack for drying clothes, the parts of which are securedtogether with the least expenditure of labor and at a very low cost. Byforming the apertures for the standards directly in the ends of thecross-bars I obviate the necessity of eXtra parts for hinging themthereto, whereby thev whole rack may be formed of wood.

Having thus described my invention, what As a new article ofmanufacture,a sectional clothes-drier consisting of a series ofstandards or upright rods; a series of cross-bars having apertures inboth ends for receiving the said standards, the cross-bars of thealternate sections being rigidly secured to their standards, and thecross-bars of the remaining sections being looselytted on said standardsand resting in contact wit-h the ends of the rigidly-secured cross-bars;and collars for coacting with the rigidly-secured crossbars for thepurpose of confining the ends of said loosely-secured cross-bars betweenthe said collars and the ends of the rigidly-se` cured cross-bars.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of October, A. D.1896.

CHARLES GRANT, JR.

